Re: Blocking SSH Brute-Force Attacks: What Am I Doing Wrong?

On Monday November 13, 2006 at 04:10:58 (AM) Frank Staals wrote:


I had the same 'problem'. As said it's not realy a problem since FreeBSD
will hold just fine if you don't have any rather stupid user + pass
combinations. ( test test or something like that ) Allthough I thought
it was annoying that my intire log was clouded with those brute force
attacks so I just set sshd to listen at an other port then 22. Maybe
that's a acceptable solusion for you ? You can change the ssd port in
/etc/ssh/sshd_config

Security through obscurity is a bad idea. Rather, use SSH key based
authentication exclusively. Turn off all of the password stuff in
sshd_config. Laugh at the poor fools trying to break in.


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Gerard

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